{"id":33029,"date":"2021-07-05T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33029"},"modified":"2021-07-23T20:04:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T00:04:38","slug":"brave-search-public-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/05\/brave-search-public-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Search Public Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bcrypt\/status\/1407394756959772677\">Yan Zhu<\/a>:\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bcrypt\/status\/1407394756959772677\">the new search engine we\u2019ve been working on at\n@brave\nis now in public beta! <a href=\"https:\/\/search.brave.com\">search.brave.com<\/a>\n<ul>\n \t<li>we don\u2019t track clicks or queries<\/li>\n \t<li>we don\u2019t profile you<\/li>\n \t<li>for localized results, we only use IP and don\u2019t store it<\/li>\n \t<li>we show you what % of results are served from our own index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brave.com\/brave-search-beta\/\">Brave<\/a>:\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/brave.com\/brave-search-beta\/\">Brave Search uses its own index, but also ensures fully anonymous search, is transparent in how search results are ranked, and integrates with a privacy-preserving browser on desktop and mobile \u2013 an across-the-board combination of independence and privacy which no other provider offers. For a detailed comparison of Brave Search versus other search engines, please see our side-by-side chart <a href=\"https:\/\/brave.com\/search\">here<\/a>.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nBrave Search is not displaying ads during this early part of the beta phase,<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2021\/06\/22\/brave-search-public-beta\">John Gruber<\/a>:\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2021\/06\/22\/brave-search-public-beta\">Biggest thing I dislike about Brave Search is the font. It\u2019s a typeface called Poppins that, almost unbelievably, <a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/specimen\/Poppins\">is a free font from Google<\/a>.<\/blockquote>\nThat and it feels slow. The search results seem OK, though. Not as good as Google, but at least in my early testing it\u2019s comparable to DuckDuckGo\/Bing, which is a promising start.\n\nThe main issue for me is that there\u2019s no built-in way to set Brave Search as the default in Safari, though you can use it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/search-engines.html\">secondary serach engine<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obdev.at\/resources\/launchbar\/help\/SearchTemplates.html\">via LaunchBar<\/a>.\n\nPreviously:\n<ul>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/11\/brave-search\/\">Brave Search<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/18\/web-search-indexes-and-ecosia-in-safari\/\">Web Search Indexes and Ecosia in Safari<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"brave-search-public-beta-update-2021-07-09\">Update (2021-07-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2021\/07\/08\/brave-search-public-beta-offers-alternative-to-google\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2021\/07\/08\/brave-search-public-beta-offers-alternative-to-google\/\">Put bluntly, Ecosia failed. It\u2019s not that it didn\u2019t work, nor did it always provide poor results. But too often, I\u2019d find myself questioning its results or knowing they weren\u2019t what I wanted. Ecosia relies on Bing, just like DuckDuckGo (which I\u2019ve tried and discarded in the past as well), so I gave up and went back to Google. I\u2019m all in favor of privacy, but not at the expense of frequent search failures.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nWhen Brave first released Brave Search in private beta, I jumped at the chance to try it. And you know what? It was pretty darn good. Now and then, I\u2019d find myself sending a search directly to Google after Brave Search didn\u2019t find what I wanted, but it passed the annoyance test that Ecosia and DuckDuckGo had failed.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nThe Goggles proposal is interesting and worth a read. In essence, it offers a way to create a plurality of rankings rather than require users to submit to a single ranking, even one that attempts to personalize itself to their desires.\n\n[\u2026]\n\nWe can hope that Apple adds Brave Search to Safari\u2019s search engine list soon\u2014I\u2019ve submitted it as a suggestion via Apple\u2019s Feedback Assistant app, and I\u2019d encourage others to do the same.<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yan Zhu: the new search engine we\u2019ve been working on at @brave is now in public beta! search.brave.com we don\u2019t track clicks or queries we don\u2019t profile you for localized results, we only use IP and don\u2019t store it we show you what % of results are served from our own index Brave: Brave Search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-05T20:05:41Z","apple_news_api_id":"6bf71198-a788-4f36-94e6-68d3a9d04726","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-24T00:04:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aa_cRmKeITzaU5mjTqdBHJg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1337,467,30,1891,355,103,343,96],"class_list":["post-33029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-brave","tag-launchbar","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-privacy","tag-safari","tag-search","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33207,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33029\/revisions\/33207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}